Infant placed in foster home under Iowa Safe Haven rules

12:58 AM,
Oct. 12, 2013

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| The Des Moines Register

A baby girl recently became Iowa's 17th Safe Haven baby, according to an Iowa Department of Human Services news release.

Iowa's Safe Haven law says that a parent of a newborn infant - 14 days or younger - may give up physical custody of the baby at an institutional health facility or authorize someone else to give up physical custody of the baby.

The baby was born at a home on Oct. 5, authorities said. The mother later gave up the infant. ...